Doc correction regarding parallel builds

Gerald Pfeifer pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Tue Jun 17 19:26:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Daniel Egger wrote:
> In install.texi one can find:
> "If you have a multiprocessor system you can use @samp{make bootstrap
> MAKE="make -j 2" -j 2} or just @samp{make -j 2 bootstrap} [...]
>
> What about: "In most cases, using a value bigger than the number of
> processors in your machine will result in smaller latency hits to read
> the source files thus improving overall throughput; this is especially
> true for slow harddrives and network filesystems."

This looks good.  Do you think you could submit a patch to install.texi?
(I'd just use "disk" instead of "harddrive".)

Gerald
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